Re: [Numpy-discussion] Strange PyArray_FromObject() behavior

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Spotz, William F wrote: > I have a user who is reporting tests that are failing on his platform. > I have not been able to reproduce the error on my system, but working with > him, we have isolated the problem to unexpected results when > PyArray_FromObject() is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Scott Sinclair
On 16 February 2012 17:31, Bruce Southey wrote: > On 02/16/2012 08:06 AM, Scott Sinclair wrote: >> This is not intended to downplay the concerns raised in this thread, >> but I can't help myself. >> >> I propose the following (tongue-in-cheek) patch against the current >> numpy master branch. >> >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > On Thursday, February 16, 2012, John Hunter wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan G Isaac >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: >>> > This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for con

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Buildbot/continuous integration (was Re: Issue Tracking)

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > The OS X slaves (especially PPC) are very valuable for testing.    We have an > intern who could help keep the build-bots going if you would give her access > to those machines. > > Thanks for being willing to offer them. No proble

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Buildbot/continuous integration (was Re: Issue Tracking)

2012-02-16 Thread Travis Oliphant
The OS X slaves (especially PPC) are very valuable for testing.We have an intern who could help keep the build-bots going if you would give her access to those machines. Thanks for being willing to offer them. -Travis On Feb 16, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, February 16, 2012, John Hunter wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan G Isaac > > > wrote: > >> On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: >> > This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for consensus. >> >> I disagree. >> Failure to reach consensus does not im

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [EXTERNAL] Re: Strange PyArray_FromObject() behavior

2012-02-16 Thread Bill Spotz
Val, The problem occurs in function PyArrayObject* obj_to_array_allow_conversion(PyObject* input, int typecode, int* is_new_object) in numpy.i (which is the numpy SWIG interface file that I authored a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi John, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:20 PM, John Hunter wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote: >> >> On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: >> > This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for consensus. >> >> I disagree. >> Failure to reach consensus does n

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Strange PyArray_FromObject() behavior

2012-02-16 Thread Val Kalatsky
Hi Bill, Looks like you are running a very fresh version of numpy. Without knowing the build version and what's going on in the extension module I can't tell you much. The usual suspects would be: 1) Numpy bug, not too likely. 2) Incorrect use of PyArray_FromObject, you'll need to send more info.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote: > On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: > > This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for consensus. > > I disagree. > Failure to reach consensus does not imply lack of striving. > > Hey Alan, thanks for your thoughtful and nuan

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Alan G Isaac wrote: > On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: >> This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for consensus. > Striving for consensus does not mean that a minority > automatically gets veto rights. 'Striving' for consensus does imp

[Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview

2012-02-16 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thursday, February 16, 2012, Warren Weckesser wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > >> Mark Wiebe and I have been discussing off and on (as well as talking with >> Charles) a good way forward to balance two competing desires: >> >>* addition of new featu

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 2/16/2012 7:22 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: > This has not been an encouraging episode in striving for consensus. I disagree. Failure to reach consensus does not imply lack of striving. I see parallels with a recent hiring decision process I observed. There were fundamentally different views of h

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 2012-02-16, at 1:28 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > I think this is a good point, which is why the idea of a long term release is > appealing. That release should be stodgy and safe, while the ongoing > development can be much more radical in making changes. I sort of thought this *was* the st

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview

2012-02-16 Thread David Gowers (kampu)
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > * incorporating a meta-object > * a few new dtypes (variable-length string, varialbe-length unicode and > an enum type) > * simple computed fields for dtypes >From the sound of that, I'm certainly looking forward to see

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Buildbot/continuous integration (was Re: Issue Tracking)

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Chris Ball wrote: >> Buildbot is used by some big projects (e.g. Python, Chromium, and >> Mozilla), but I'm aware that several projects in the scientific/numeric >> Python ecosystem use Jenkins (inclu

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > > Matthew, > > What you should take from my post is that I appreciate your concern for the > future of the NumPy project, and am grateful that you have an eye to the sort > of things that can go wrong --- it will help ensure they don

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Buildbot/continuous integration (was Re: Issue Tracking)

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Buildbot is used by some big projects (e.g. Python, Chromium, and > Mozilla), but I'm aware that several projects in the scientific/numeric > Python ecosystem use Jenkins (including Cython, IPython, and SymPy), > often using a hosted Jenkins so

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Buildbot/continuous integration (was Re: Issue Tracking)

2012-02-16 Thread Ognen Duzlevski
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On 16 February 2012 23:52, Chris Ball wrote: >> I'm aware that several projects in the scientific/numeric >> Python ecosystem use Jenkins (including Cython, IPython, and SymPy), >> often using a hosted Jenkins solution such as Shining Panda

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Buildbot/continuous integration (was Re: Issue Tracking)

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 16 February 2012 23:52, Chris Ball wrote: > I'm aware that several projects in the scientific/numeric > Python ecosystem use Jenkins (including Cython, IPython, and SymPy), > often using a hosted Jenkins solution such as Shining Panda. A difficult > part of running a Buildbot service is finding

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Buildbot/continuous integration (was Re: Issue Tracking)

2012-02-16 Thread Travis Oliphant
We never turn down good help like this. Thank's Chris. I have applied for an unlimited license for TeamCity for the NumPy project. I have heard good things about TeamCity, although getting the slaves cranking and staying cranking is the goal and not the CI architecture.If you know build

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Travis Oliphant
Matthew, What you should take from my post is that I appreciate your concern for the future of the NumPy project, and am grateful that you have an eye to the sort of things that can go wrong --- it will help ensure they don't go wrong. But, I personally don't agree that it is necessary to pu

[Numpy-discussion] Buildbot/continuous integration (was Re: Issue Tracking)

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Ball
Ralf Gommers googlemail.com> writes: ... > While we're at it, our buildbot situation is much worse than our issue > tracker situation. This also looks good (and free): > http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/ I'd like to help with the NumPy Buildbot situation, and below I propose a plan for myself t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:20 PM, wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Warren Weckesser > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Travis Oliphant > > wrote: > >> > >> Mark Wiebe and I have been discussing off and on (as well as talking > with > >> Charles) a good way forward to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Warren Weckesser wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Travis Oliphant > wrote: >> >> Mark Wiebe and I have been discussing off and on (as well as talking with >> Charles) a good way forward to balance two competing desires: >> >>        * addition of new

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview

2012-02-16 Thread Warren Weckesser
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > Mark Wiebe and I have been discussing off and on (as well as talking with > Charles) a good way forward to balance two competing desires: > >* addition of new features that are needed in NumPy >* improving the code-base gene

[Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview

2012-02-16 Thread Travis Oliphant
Mark Wiebe and I have been discussing off and on (as well as talking with Charles) a good way forward to balance two competing desires: * addition of new features that are needed in NumPy * improving the code-base generally and moving towards a more maintainable NumPy I know th

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, Just for my own sake, can I clarify what you are saying here? On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > I'm not a big fan of design-by-committee as I haven't seen it be very > successful in creating new technologies.   It is pretty good at enforcing the > status-quo.  If I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Migrating issues to GitHub

2012-02-16 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Thouis (Ray) Jones wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 19:25, Ralf Gommers > wrote: > > In another thread Jira was proposed as an alternative to Trac. Can you > point > > out some of its strengths and weaknesses, and tell us why you decided to > > move away from it?

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Migrating issues to GitHub

2012-02-16 Thread Thouis (Ray) Jones
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 19:25, Ralf Gommers wrote: > In another thread Jira was proposed as an alternative to Trac. Can you point > out some of its strengths and weaknesses, and tell us why you decided to > move away from it? The two primary reasons were that our Jira server was behind a firewall

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Travis Oliphant
This has been a clarifying discussion for some people. I'm glad people are speaking up. I believe in the value of consensus and the value of users opinions.I want to make sure that people who use NumPy and haven't yet learned how to contribute, feel like they have a voice. I have alway

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught > wrote: > >> > On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathan

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Christopher Jordan-Squire
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught wrote: >>> > On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smit

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Christopher Jordan-Squire wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Matthew Brett > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Francesc Alted >> wrote: >>> On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: >>> On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught wrote: >> > On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> > >> >> Travis's proposal is that we go from a large num

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Hi, > > 16.02.2012 18:00, Nathaniel Smith kirjoitti: > [clip] >> I agree, but the behavior is still surprising -- people reasonably >> expect something like svd to be deterministic. So there's probably a >> doc bug for alerting people that t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > > >> Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting > >> people putting in little bits of time to a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > > >> Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting > >> people putting in little bits of time to a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > >> Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting >> people putting in little bits of time to a small number of designated >> people putting in lots of time. > > >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Christopher Jordan-Squire
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Francesc Alted wrote: >> On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: >> >>> On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: But in the very end, when agreement can't be reached by othe

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > Why not the NA discussion?  Would we really want to have that happen again? > Note that it still isn't fully resolved and progress still needs to be made > (I think the last thread did an excellent job of fleshing out the ideas, but > it beca

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Barker
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Matthew Brett wrote: > But surely - surely - the best thing to do here is to formulate > something that might be acceptable, and for everyone to say what they > think the problems would be.  Do you agree? Absolutely -- but just like anything else in open source -

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Francesc Alted > wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > > >> On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > >>> But in the very end, when agreement can't > >>> be reached b

[Numpy-discussion] test errors on deprecation/runtime warnings

2012-02-16 Thread Ralf Gommers
Hi, Last week we merged https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/201, which causes DeprecationWarning's and RuntimeWarning's to be converted to errors if they occur when running the test suite. The purpose of that is to make sure that code that still uses other deprecated code (or code that for some re

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Francesc Alted wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > >> On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >>> But in the very end, when agreement can't >>> be reached by other means, the developers are the one making the calls. >>> (This is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:09 AM, wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Charles R Harris > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn > >> wrote: > >> > If non-contributing users came along on

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Migrating issues to GitHub

2012-02-16 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Thouis (Ray) Jones wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 21:54, Fernando Perez > wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > >> The lack of attachments is the main problem with this transition. It's > >> not so seldom that numerical input dat

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn >> wrote: >> > If non-contributing users came along on the Cython list demanding that >> > we set up a system to se

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 05:00:29PM +, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > I agree, but the behavior is still surprising -- people reasonably > expect something like svd to be deterministic. People are wrong then. Trust me, I work enough with ill-conditionned problems, including SVDs, to know that the alg

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn > wrote: > > If non-contributing users came along on the Cython list demanding that > > we set up a system to select non-developers along on a board that would > > have discussions in

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matthew Brett > Personally, I > would say that making the founder of a company, which is > working to > make money from Numpy, the only decision maker on numpy - > is - scary. not to me: -- power always goes to those that actually write the code -- as far as I ca

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Hi, > > 16.02.2012 18:00, Nathaniel Smith kirjoitti: > [clip] > > I agree, but the behavior is still surprising -- people reasonably > > expect something like svd to be deterministic. So there's probably a > > doc bug for alerting people t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Inati, Souheil (NIH/NIMH) [E] > As great and trustworthy as Travis is, there is a very real > potential for conflict of interest here. He is going to be leading an > organization to raise and distribute funding and at the same time > leading a > commercial for pro

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Hi, 16.02.2012 18:00, Nathaniel Smith kirjoitti: [clip] > I agree, but the behavior is still surprising -- people reasonably > expect something like svd to be deterministic. So there's probably a > doc bug for alerting people that their reasonable expectation is, in > fact, wrong :-). The problem

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:07 AM, wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:47 AM, wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:30 AM, wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Warren Weckesser > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Pierre Haessig < > pierre.haes...@crans.org

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Travis Vaught
On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting > people putting in little bits of time to a small number of designated > people putting in lots of time. That's not what Travis, or anyone else, proposed. Travis V.__

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Robert Kern
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 17:07, wrote: > cholesky is also deterministic in my runs We will need to check a variety of builds with different LAPACK libraries and also different matrix sizes to be sure. Alas! -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless e

[Numpy-discussion] Strange PyArray_FromObject() behavior

2012-02-16 Thread Spotz, William F
I have a user who is reporting tests that are failing on his platform. I have not been able to reproduce the error on my system, but working with him, we have isolated the problem to unexpected results when PyArray_FromObject() is called. Here is the chain of events: In python, an integer is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:47 AM, wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:30 AM,   wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Warren Weckesser >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Pierre Haessig >>> wrote: Le 16/02/2012 16:20, josef.p...@gmail.com a écrit : >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > 16.02.2012 14:54, josef.p...@gmail.com kirjoitti: > [clip] >> If I interpret you correctly, this should be a svd ticket, or an svd >> ticket as "duplicate" ? > > I think it should be a multivariate normal ticket. > > "Fixing" SVD is in my op

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > If non-contributing users came along on the Cython list demanding that > we set up a system to select non-developers along on a board that would > have discussions in order to veto pull requests, I don't know whether > we'd ignore it

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:30 AM, wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Warren Weckesser > wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Pierre Haessig >> wrote: >>> >>> Le 16/02/2012 16:20, josef.p...@gmail.com a écrit : >>> I don't see any way to fix multivariate_normal for this

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Warren Weckesser wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Pierre Haessig > wrote: >> >> Le 16/02/2012 16:20, josef.p...@gmail.com a écrit : >> >>> I don't see any way to fix multivariate_normal for this case, except >>> for dropping svd or for random pertur

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Robert Kern
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 16:12, Pierre Haessig wrote: > Le 16/02/2012 16:20, josef.p...@gmail.com a écrit : > >> I don't see any way to fix multivariate_normal for this case, except >> for dropping svd or for random perturbing a covariance matrix with >> multiplicity of singular values. > > Hi, > I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Warren Weckesser
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Pierre Haessig wrote: > Le 16/02/2012 16:20, josef.p...@gmail.com a écrit : > > I don't see any way to fix multivariate_normal for this case, except >> for dropping svd or for random perturbing a covariance matrix with >> multiplicity of singular values. >> > Hi,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Pierre Haessig
Le 16/02/2012 16:20, josef.p...@gmail.com a écrit : I don't see any way to fix multivariate_normal for this case, except for dropping svd or for random perturbing a covariance matrix with multiplicity of singular values. Hi, I just made a quick search in what R guys are doing. It happens there

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Bruce Southey
On 02/16/2012 08:06 AM, Scott Sinclair wrote: > On 16 February 2012 15:08, Thomas Kluyver wrote: >> It strikes me that the effort everyone's put into this thread could >> have by now designed some way to resolve disputes. ;-) > This is not intended to downplay the concerns raised in this thread, >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > 16.02.2012 14:54, josef.p...@gmail.com kirjoitti: > [clip] >> If I interpret you correctly, this should be a svd ticket, or an svd >> ticket as "duplicate" ? > > I think it should be a multivariate normal ticket. > > "Fixing" SVD is in my op

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Wang
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Matthew Brett wrote: >> The question is more about what can possibly be done about it. To really >> shift power, my hunch is that the only practical way would be to, like >> Mark said, make sure there are very active non-Continuum-employed >> developers. But perhaps I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/16/12 8:06 AM, Scott Sinclair wrote: > On 16 February 2012 15:08, Thomas Kluyver wrote: >> It strikes me that the effort everyone's put into this thread could >> have by now designed some way to resolve disputes. ;-) > > This is not intended to downplay the concerns raised in this thread, > b

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Pauli Virtanen
16.02.2012 14:54, josef.p...@gmail.com kirjoitti: [clip] > If I interpret you correctly, this should be a svd ticket, or an svd > ticket as "duplicate" ? I think it should be a multivariate normal ticket. "Fixing" SVD is in my opinion not sensible: its only guarantee is that A = U S V^H down to n

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Scott Sinclair
On 16 February 2012 15:08, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > It strikes me that the effort everyone's put into this thread could > have by now designed some way to resolve disputes. ;-) This is not intended to downplay the concerns raised in this thread, but I can't help myself. I propose the following (t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > 16.02.2012 14:14, josef.p...@gmail.com kirjoitti: > [clip] >> We had other cases of several patterns in quasi-deterministic linalg >> before, but as far as I remember only in the final digits of >> precision, where it didn't matter much exce

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:14 AM, wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 16.02.2012 06:09, josef.p...@gmail.com kirjoitti: >> [clip] >>> numpy linalg.svd doesn't produce always the same results >>> >>> running this gives two different answers, >>> using scipy

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Pauli Virtanen
16.02.2012 14:14, josef.p...@gmail.com kirjoitti: [clip] > We had other cases of several patterns in quasi-deterministic linalg > before, but as far as I remember only in the final digits of > precision, where it didn't matter much except for reducing test > precision in my cases. > > In the rando

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Hi, > > 16.02.2012 06:09, josef.p...@gmail.com kirjoitti: > [clip] >> numpy linalg.svd doesn't produce always the same results >> >> running this gives two different answers, >> using scipy.linalg.svd I always get the same answer, which is o

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Kluyver
If I can chime in as a newcomer on this list: I don't think a conflict of interest is at all likely, but I can see the point of those saying that it's worth thinking about this while everything is going well. If any tension does arise, it will be all but impossible to decide on a fair governance s

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/16/12 6:23 AM, Francesc Alted wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > >> On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >>> But in the very end, when agreement can't be reached by other >>> means, the developers are the one making the calls. (This is >>> simply a consequen

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Francesc Alted
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >> But in the very end, when agreement can't >> be reached by other means, the developers are the one making the calls. >> (This is simply a consequence that they are the only ones who can >> credibl

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Perry Greenfield
On Feb 15, 2012, at 6:18 PM, Joe Harrington wrote: > > > Of course, balancing all of this (and our security blanket) is the > possibility of someone splitting the code if they don't like how > Continuum runs things. Perry, you've done that yourself to this > code's > predecessor, so you know th

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/15/12 6:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > But in the very end, when agreement can't > be reached by other means, the developers are the one making the calls. > (This is simply a consequence that they are the only ones who can > credibly threaten to fork the project.) Interesting point. I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Numpy governance update

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Anton Letnes
> > An example I really like is LibreOffice's "get involved" page. > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/ > > Producing something similar for NumPy will take some work, but I believe it's > needed. Speaking as someone who has contributed to numpy in a microscopic fashion, I agree comple

Re: [Numpy-discussion] strange behavior of numpy.random.multivariate_normal, ticket:1842

2012-02-16 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Hi, 16.02.2012 06:09, josef.p...@gmail.com kirjoitti: [clip] > numpy linalg.svd doesn't produce always the same results > > running this gives two different answers, > using scipy.linalg.svd I always get the same answer, which is one of > the numpy answers > (numpy random.multivariate_normal is c

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-16 Thread David Cournapeau
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:32 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > >> Hi Travis, >> >> It is great that some resources can be spent to have people paid to >> work on NumPy. Thank you for making that happen. >> >> I am slightly confused about roadmaps